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The Book of Eli (US - DVD R1 | BD)

Warner Home Video reveals artwork for DVD and Blu-ray releases of the film

Title: The Book of Eli (IMDb)Starring: Denzel WashingtonReleased: 15th June 2010SRP: Prices TBC

Further Details:
Warner Home Video has announced DVD and Blu-ray/DVD Combo releases of The Book of Eli which stars Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman. Each will be available to own from the 15th June. The only extra material on the DVD release will be additional scenes, and a featurette ("The Lost Tales"). The Blu-ray/DVD combo release will include that, along with the following additional features ("Starting Over", "Soundtrack Piece", "Eli's Journey"), a digital copy, and a copy of the standard definition DVD.

Synopsis

Quote: Eli (Denzel Washington) walks alone in post-apocalyptic America, carrying the last copy of a book that could become the wellspring of a revived society. Or in wrong hands, the hammer of a despot. Eli keeps his blade sharp and survival instincts sharper navigating a savage wasteland and coming into conflict with a menacing warlord (Gary Oldman). The Hughes Brothers (Menace II Society) direct.

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Quote: I'm glad you were kidding. It's hard to judge tone on the internet, and especially when your sarcastic statement is something that a lot of kids on the internet have been saying (in a serious manner) since the trailers for this movie came out.

No harm, no foul dude...you're right though, it was a very "fashionable" crack to make and I can see how someone could get defensive about a comment like that when you don't have the context of the poster's writing style to frame it in. For the record, I did like the film. Denzel is a top shelf actor and Gary Oldman is criminally underrated/overlooked. I've said it before and I'll say it again: How this man does not have at least one Oscar sitting on his mantle is one of the greatest mysteries of the universe to me. I sure as hell hope he doesn't end up sharing Cary Grant's fate - zero Academy Awards but a nice fat "Honorary Oscar" consolation prize at the end of his career. That would be a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions!

Good. I really liked this movie. I think it got a lot of bad reviews because of the Christian aspect, but was well done and had a perfect ending. Denzel was great and Gary Oldman was amazing. Of course he always is and was surprised to see Mila can actually act and do something different for a change.

Oh one more thing. Why is it going to take so damn long. Five months!!!!! Come on. I thought that was a thing of the past. Everything now at least takes like three.

Nevunder wrote:Quote: I saw an early screening of this with the Hughes Brothers doing a Q&A after. Neither of them ever played Fallout 3. And have you ever heard of a movie called "A Boy and His Dog"? You're kidding yourself if you think Fallout 3 was the first thing to use this setting.

Okay calm down, there, Homeslice....Hey, Sarcasm just said to ask you if you've ever heard of him?....Look, I was just poking fun at some of the similar visual imagery. Yes, it's true Fallout 3 is not the first artistic concept to embrace a post-apocalyptic premise or setting. Far from it. In addition to A Boy and His Dog, as you so aptly pointed out, here are a few more prominent examples: the Mad Max films, I Am Legend (3 film versions AND source novel), Escape From New York (I will not mention the turdfest sequel by it's proper name, however), Stephen King's The Stand, the 80's PC games Wasteland ( Fallout's true spiritual predecessor) and Bad Blood, Cormac McCarthy's The Road, elements of Red Dawn, any number of classic 50's sci-fi films and the granddaddy of them all, the good ol' Book of Revelations - which more or less brings us full circle with The Book of Eli. Bottom line: Fallout 3 is merely one of the most recent, well known and popular examples to reference, so I did. Seriousy, man - remind me next time I make an attempt at humor in my comments to add a footnote that reads "Sarcasm was here". Sheesh.

I'm glad you were kidding. It's hard to judge tone on the internet, and especially when your sarcastic statement is something that a lot of kids on the internet have been saying (in a serious manner) since the trailers for this movie came out.

This wasn't an atrocious movie, but it did have some problems. Oldman, as earlier mentioned is always reliable. Denzel was physically awesome as a fighter (kinda like in Virtuosity) and I really liked his character regardless of some flaws.

One problem I had was the misuse of Ray Stephenson. He made one of the largest impressions on me, and yet he only got maybe 5-10 complete minutes of screen time and little to no dialogue. He fleshed out a character that was probably just another meat-headed henchman on paper.

And the ending didn't make sense, as far the situation with Denzel. He was making eye contact with every person, operating an ipod, killing a mutated cat in the opening with ridiculous precision? Hmmm...

A lot of potential but some little things brought it down for me. Still a day one purchase cuz it is a cool movie regardless.

Quote: I saw an early screening of this with the Hughes Brothers doing a Q&A after. Neither of them ever played Fallout 3. And have you ever heard of a movie called "A Boy and His Dog"? You're kidding yourself if you think Fallout 3 was the first thing to use this setting.

Okay calm down, there, Homeslice....Hey, Sarcasm just said to ask you if you've ever heard of him?....Look, I was just poking fun at some of the similar visual imagery. Yes, it's true Fallout 3 is not the first artistic concept to embrace a post-apocalyptic premise or setting. Far from it. In addition to A Boy and His Dog, as you so aptly pointed out, here are a few more prominent examples: the Mad Max films, I Am Legend (3 film versions AND source novel), Escape From New York (I will not mention the turdfest sequel by it's proper name, however), Stephen King's The Stand, the 80's PC games Wasteland ( Fallout's true spiritual predecessor) and Bad Blood, Cormac McCarthy's The Road, elements of Red Dawn, any number of classic 50's sci-fi films and the granddaddy of them all, the good ol' Book of Revelations - which more or less brings us full circle with The Book of Eli. Bottom line: Fallout 3 is merely one of the most recent, well known and popular examples to reference, so I did. Seriousy, man - remind me next time I make an attempt at humor in my comments to add a footnote that reads "Sarcasm was here". Sheesh.

Nevunder wrote: I thought this film was great when it was called Fallout 3 and I played it on my PS3. Seriously, all it needed were some Super Mutants and a couple shots of the Capital Wasteland monuments.

I saw an early screening of this with the Hughes Brothers doing a Q&A after. Neither of them ever played Fallout 3. And have you ever heard of a movie called "A Boy and His Dog"? You're kidding yourself if you think Fallout 3 was the first thing to use this setting.

I had the chance to see this and Legion and chose Legion. Oh what a terrible decision that was. Even if Book of Eli sucks, it's virtually impossible for Book of Eli to be worse than Legion. This looked decent, but didn't need to rush out to see it. Definitely seeing this for Mila Kunis. She's beyond hot.

this movie was almost decent. it really didn't know what it wanted to be - a badass action movie? a religious melodrama? an uplifting journey? - and that really hurt it. it was pretty boring and slow, but it had its moments.

This one is no classic by any means, but an entertaining film just the same. I'm admittedly a sucker for a good post-apocalyptic romp. Gary Oldman is always reliable, whenever I read someone calling his performance 'over the top' it only makes me want to see the film that much more. Seriously, we're talking about the guy who portrayed brilliantly 'over the top' roles in both "The Fifth Element" and "Leon".

The same folks who criticize this film for being "too slow" probably said the same thing about "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" or "Moon". As for the ending, yeah, definitely the worst aspect of the film. Still, all things considered, first day Blu for me too!

The only thing this movie didn't do was pass around a collection plate. BORING. Waste of time and money. I normally like Mr. Washington and Mr. Oldman's movies, this has got to be the worst movies of the year.

This is a day one purchase for me, I loved this movie. I'm really happy to see more and more Blu-Rays coming with a standard copy of the movie. Easier to take to friends houses, and watch in other rooms of the house.